Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives and Knowledge in the Biology Curriculum: The Little Porky
This paper reports on an Action Research project that investigated the integration of Aboriginal and Western knowledge into science learning in a Montessori classroom in regional Queensland, Australia. Drawing on the local knowledge of fauna of community members, the study explored the teaching of...
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland
2017-07-01
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This paper reports on an Action Research project that investigated the integration of Aboriginal and Western knowledge into science learning in a Montessori classroom in regional Queensland, Australia. Drawing on the local knowledge of fauna of community members, the study explored the teaching of science to 12-year 8–9 students in an Aboriginal independent high school in Queensland. The overall study covered 83 lessons that included an initial Short-beaked echidna study. It applied thematic analysis to data to explore the effect of this integrated approach on students’ pride in heritage, cultural knowledge, learning and the Linnaean zoology taxonomy. Results revealed that the contextualisation of Aboriginal and Western science knowledge strengthened students’ Aboriginal personal identity as well as identities as science learners and status of local Aboriginal knowledge.
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| spelling | doaj.art-259e39a729b3492ead7c501fc42c22722023-01-03T02:53:20ZengAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of QueenslandThe Australian Journal of Indigenous Education2049-77842017-07-0147210.1017/jie.2017.12Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives and Knowledge in the Biology Curriculum: The Little PorkyJoël Rioux0Bronwyn Ewing1Tom J. Cooper2Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary EducationQueensland University of TechnologyQueensland University of Technology This paper reports on an Action Research project that investigated the integration of Aboriginal and Western knowledge into science learning in a Montessori classroom in regional Queensland, Australia. Drawing on the local knowledge of fauna of community members, the study explored the teaching of science to 12-year 8–9 students in an Aboriginal independent high school in Queensland. The overall study covered 83 lessons that included an initial Short-beaked echidna study. It applied thematic analysis to data to explore the effect of this integrated approach on students’ pride in heritage, cultural knowledge, learning and the Linnaean zoology taxonomy. Results revealed that the contextualisation of Aboriginal and Western science knowledge strengthened students’ Aboriginal personal identity as well as identities as science learners and status of local Aboriginal knowledge. https://ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/article/view/225Aboriginal learnersAboriginal perspectivesbiologyteachingcontextualised teaching and learning |
| spellingShingle | Joël Rioux Bronwyn Ewing Tom J. Cooper Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives and Knowledge in the Biology Curriculum: The Little Porky The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education Aboriginal learners Aboriginal perspectives biology teaching contextualised teaching and learning |
| title | Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives and Knowledge in the Biology Curriculum: The Little Porky |
| title_full | Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives and Knowledge in the Biology Curriculum: The Little Porky |
| title_fullStr | Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives and Knowledge in the Biology Curriculum: The Little Porky |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives and Knowledge in the Biology Curriculum: The Little Porky |
| title_short | Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives and Knowledge in the Biology Curriculum: The Little Porky |
| title_sort | embedding aboriginal perspectives and knowledge in the biology curriculum the little porky |
| topic | Aboriginal learners Aboriginal perspectives biology teaching contextualised teaching and learning |
| url | https://ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/article/view/225 |
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